Work brings me to Tucson, and I stay an extra day to go walk Sabino canyon in the early morning before temperatures become unsafe. 95 degrees just before 7 a.m. as I park and ready myself. Partly cloudy but little chance of rain today. Less than two months before my solo hiking adventure across the…
Tag: a day in the life
The Glamper Cabin
Memorial weekend is here, and I wonder where did Spring disappear to so quickly? The warmer temperatures in the Valley drive me northward, destination Flagstaff and the Glamper Cabin for a few days. No TV, internet or distractions. I return to this special spot after a couple of years, this time in the summer instead…
Palm Springs for a golfing good time
My brother had his 50th birthday celebration in Palm Springs as he is a big time golfer. The women enjoyed Springtime weather in the desert by the AirBnB pool while us boys did two days of eighteen hole golf at some sweet courses. I’m the worst golfer, mainly because I don’t take the game seriously….
The Kyoob at Shash Dine
I cross the border back into Arizona, pass Lake Powell and the town of Page alongway highway 89. One of the dirt roads that sprout off this highway will take me to the Sheep Ranch on Navajo land, Shash Dine. High on the plateau that overlooks the Colorado river and Horseshoe Bend is where I…
Toadstools
Over the course of my lifetime I’ve probably driven past this lone sign at least twenty times, if not fifty. The sparse landscape between Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona can lead one to many different types of outdoor adventures, many of which I have been fortunate enough to see and do. One that I had…
Chihuly at the DBG
The Holidays are over, at least officially, but that warm and special feeling is still lingering with many of us. The first week of 2022 finds myself back at the Desert Botanical Gardens for the Chihuly exhibit. Desert light in the winter afternoon is my favorite time of day. The blown glass work on display…
Red Cliffs Lodge
I chose to have the Red Cliffs Lodge as my base camp while exploring Canyonlands National Park. The lodge is about 15 miles from Moab up the colorado river. Quiet and secluded, especially with the pandemic still hanging around. Near empty, it allowed me to set up time lapse cameras all over the place, capturing…
Chesler Park
It was still fairly early as I leave the Slickrock trail and head for the trailhead to Chesler Park, the hike I came all this way out here for. Bouncing slowly along the dirt road for a spell, I finally find the start of the trail. The silence out here is certainly foreboding. I make…
Into the Needles & the Slickrock trail
Day three exploring Canyonlands National Park. Four a.m. finds me on the road to a much more remote section of the Park, The Needles. I get there before the sun rises, and so I pull off the road and watch a crow that is watching me while waiting for the landscape to lighten. Once it…
Mesa Arch
There was only one trailhead parking lot area that had an abundance of cars (relatively speaking) in the Island in the Sky district. The trail leading one to Mesa Arch. I bundle up and head on out to see why…. The hike was short, not even 1/4 mile long, so soon I was at the…
Island in the Sky District
Day two in Canyonlands, and this time I make it further than beyond the National Park entrance. Today I explore the vast reaches of the Island in the Sky District. I have no planned itinerary, but instead use luck and intuition as I go. The morning sun has just broke free of the clouds as…
into Canyonlands…finally.
It was hard to believe that I had never been here before, with the many times I had been to Dead Horse Point. Such is the way life goes though, if you go just behind your normal routine, one may discover a side of yourself that was previously unknown. I’d just left the family after…